UPDATE: Nevermind. I fixed this problem myself. For anyone else running into the same problem with Rhino, add the o option to ~source root/rhino/unxlngx4.pro/misc/rhino15R4.unpack. Probably would work on other pacakges within OO.o also.


I've been trying to get OpenOffice 2 installed. The closes to a working install I've gotten with prebuilt packages is with 1.9.108 and that couldn't open files, so it was basically worthless to me. A friend suggested that I might have better luck building from scratch. I have built packages from scratch before, but never anything as big or complex as OpenOffice.

Anyway, 5 minutes into my first attempt, it threw up enough errors while trying to compile Python to fill the buffer on my terminal. I went back and reconfigured it to use the system python and tried again. I ran into the same problem with Mozilla, which I disabled. Then I ran into the same problem with Rhino. At this point, it's obvious that I'm going to continue running into this problem until I find the right way to fix it. I've googled, to no avail. The only thing I've been able to figure out is that the error is caused by tar not being able to set permissions on files that are being unpacked. I haven't been able to find a solution. Here's a copy of the last part of my buffer:

tar: rhino1_5R4/examples/Counter.java: Cannot change ownership to uid 94707, gid 261: Invalid argument
rhino1_5R4/examples/File.java
tar: rhino1_5R4/examples/File.java: Cannot change ownership to uid 94707, gid 261: Invalid argument
rhino1_5R4/examples/RunScript.java
tar: rhino1_5R4/examples/RunScript.java: Cannot change ownership to uid 94707, gid 261: Invalid argument
rhino1_5R4/examples/checkParam.js
tar: rhino1_5R4/examples/checkParam.js: Cannot change ownership to uid 94707, gid 261: Invalid argument
rhino1_5R4/examples/SwingApplication.js
tar: rhino1_5R4/examples/SwingApplication.js: Cannot change ownership to uid 94707, gid 261: Invalid argument
rhino1_5R4/examples/NervousText.html
tar: rhino1_5R4/examples/NervousText.html: Cannot change ownership to uid 94707, gid 261: Invalid argument
rhino1_5R4/examples/CounterTest.java
tar: rhino1_5R4/examples/CounterTest.java: Cannot change ownership to uid 94707, gid 261: Invalid argument
rhino1_5R4/examples/Shell.java
tar: rhino1_5R4/examples/Shell.java: Cannot change ownership to uid 94707, gid 261: Invalid argument
rhino1_5R4/examples/Foo.java
tar: rhino1_5R4/examples/Foo.java: Cannot change ownership to uid 94707, gid 261: Invalid argument
rhino1_5R4/examples/liveConnect.js
tar: rhino1_5R4/examples/liveConnect.js: Cannot change ownership to uid 94707, gid 261: Invalid argument
tar: rhino1_5R4/examples: Cannot change ownership to uid 94707, gid 261: Invalid argument
tar: rhino1_5R4: Cannot change ownership to uid 94707, gid 261: Invalid argument
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
dmake: Error code 2, while making './unxlngx4.pro/misc/build/so_unpacked_ooo_rhino'
'---* tg_merge.mk *---'

ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /mnt/hdb/ooo/ooo/rhino
dmake: Error code 1, while making 'build_instsetoo_native'
'---* tg_merge.mk *---'
Does anyone know how to fix this?